News of the Day.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 370, 23 April 1866, Page 3

News of the Day.

RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT. Feiday, 20th Apkil. (Before John Cpelino, Esq., ILM.) STEALING. Thomas Andrews, a private in the 12th Eegt., was charged with stealing a bottle of porter from the bar of the Settlers’ Hotel, Shakespeare-road. —Case dismissed from insufficient evidence. DEBT. Warnes v. Sanderson. —A claim of £49 2s lOd for damages sustained by the brigantine : Balmoral’ running into a punt, the property of plaintiff. —Judgment for amount claimed, and costs, 17s. — Appeal entered. Topping v. Butler.—A claim of £3 2s Id.— Judgment confessed: 11s costs. English Mail, —The s.s. ‘ Lord Ashley,’ Cant. Wor«p, is due here on Wednesday next, the 25th April, with the English Mail, and not on tho 2Cth inst., as erroneously advertised in our last issue. The ‘Lord Ashley’ will leave for Auckland on Thursday, the 26th inst., at noon—sharp.

The Teade between Hawse’s Bay and Wellington.—With reference to the above question the ‘ New Zealand Advertiser, 5 11th April, has the following remarks. We are of opinion, however, that it will not be easy to divert our merchants from procuring the greater part of their goods from Sydney and Auckland. At the same time, wo trust that a good trade will spring up between this province and Wellington, behoving that it will be a means of placing the respective provinces on more friendly terms than has seemed to exist for some time past. 'lhe ‘ Advertiser 5 says :—“ A gentleman recently returned from, Hawke’s Bay informs us that the settlers in that Province naturally complain of the want of means for the communication with Wellington. As it is, nearly all their trade is done between Auckland and Sydney, and but very little comes through Wellington. Facilities for eommnieatiou would quickly alter this state of things, and advantages would accrue alike to the people of Hawke’s Bay and the mercantile community of this city. It was suggested, and we think the proposition should meet with the consideration of the Directors of the N.Z.S.N. Company, that one cf the small steamers should be laid on to ply regularly between Napier and this port, and we have heard it asserted that such a service would pay well. Perhaps, too, the Poviucial Governments might be inclined to pay a small subsidy in order to secure so great an advantage by opening up a trade between the two Provinces, and thereby tending to the convenience and benefit of the settlers of both places.” Sit all Faems.—ln the first page of this morning’s paper will be found an interesting articie from the ‘ Australasian ’ on the advantage to occupiers individually, and the country generally, by' the cultivation of small farms of from ten to fifty acres each. The arguments adduced apply principally to Australia, but they may be used with equal force in the case of this Colony and Province, — nay, they are much more applicable in the latter case than in the former; but to make a small farm at all remunerative, the occupier must, as the writer of the article wo have called attention to remarks, “ eschew John Bullism, and adopt the system cf the small cultivators in Belgium.” The Noble Savage. —lt is enough to make the blood boil to peruse the list of horrible atrocities committed by the negro savages of Jamaica, and to know that so many of the very countrymen of the murdered victims are loudly calling for the disgrace of Governor Eyre, who so firmly and withal mercifully nipped in the bud what would otherwise have been a most terrible insurrection. Had the “noble savages” of New Zealand butchered our citizens, ravished their wives, and burned their property, there wonld doubtless ho . found men, even in Hawke’s Bay, who would have palliated such conduct, and who would have' been only too glad to stay the hand ofjustice from the punishment of the guilty savages, by petitioning for a commutation of sentence of death passed on murderers. The following is taken from the ‘Daily Telegraph,’ supplied by that journal’s Creole correspondent:—“ Under the protection of their quasi military organisation the rebels continued their butchery and plunder, and the whole night was spent in revelry and crime. And contemporaneously with these doings at Movant Bay, other parties of desperadoes were murdering the whites ou the plantations, sacking dwellings and stores, and carrying destruction everywhere. Delicate women had to fly with their children into the woods and caves ; men with their families had to risk their lives in small and insecure canoes ou the ocean ; and refined ladies had to courtesy to their previous servants, and address them as “ massa ” and “ misses,” Mrs H s, in order to save her own life, and that of her babe, was compelled to fall on her knees and declare to the man whose hand was stained with the blood of her husband that she forgave him ; and then she was obliged to shake hands with every one of the murderous party. Soonafteranotherbodyoftheblacksdiscovered this unfortunate lady, and by them she was stripped, and would have been more seriously insulted but for the interference of one of the men, who declared that as she was “ the handsomest woman at Bath she would bo kept for future purposes.” Mrs H 1 was ordered to select from her husband’s whips one with which she was afterwards told that she was to be flogged, and from which punishment she was saved only by the timely intervention of a black servant who remained faithful to her ; but not long after a negro entered and was about to degrade her for life, when she was again rescued, A Mrs R——- s was similarly insulted, and she had an escape from ruin by the same providential deliverance. But g h was not so fortunate. The rebels entered her father’s house while he was at Marant Bay, and carried her into the woods. They detained her for three days, and when discovered she was but a wreck. She has been dishonored, and disabled, and remains an invalid, perhaps for life. Her unhappy father died two weeks after the rebellion from the effects of a broken heart,*’